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Antony changes gear, clears long-delayed plans

Stung by General V K Singh highlighting "critical" operational gaps in Army's war-fighting capabilities, defence minister A K Antony went on a overdrive on Monday to clear five and 15-year perspective plans of the armed forces hanging fire for long and also tweaked the offsets policy to include technology transfer. But Antony also directed the 1.13-million strong Army to put its own house in order by "streamlining its acquisition process in such a manner that accountability can be fixed for slippages" as well as "compress the time taken for technical evaluations and trials".

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